Bug 2038 - Can't select option to install in Text mode with "F3" - "Text" in installer boot menu
Summary: Can't select option to install in Text mode with "F3" - "Text" in installer b...
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal major
Target Milestone: Mageia 3
Assignee: Erwan VELU
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: 5RC
Keywords:
: 645 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-07-05 15:41 CEST by Mark Lo
Modified: 2017-07-09 18:27 CEST (History)
11 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: mageia-gfxboot-theme
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
stage1.log from a failed text install when I select text from the graphical grub option F3 (3.47 KB, text/plain)
2015-05-04 18:38 CEST, Mauricio Andrés Bustamante Viveros
Details

Description Mark Lo 2011-07-05 15:41:19 CEST
It happen in both x86_64 or i586 iso.

1. In the screen before selecting "Install Mageia 1"
2. Press F3 to select Text, <Enter>

A GUI installer in "PLEASE CHOOSE A LANGUAGE TO USE"
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2011-07-06 03:47:27 CEST
I think this is a duplicate of bug 1321.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2011-07-06 04:44:25 CEST
I don't think it's a duplicate, he can use the keyboard on the GRUB screen.

@Mark: this is a known bug in mageia-gfxboot-theme, the workaround is either:
- When booting press and hold Shift, this will take you to a text console, at the prompt type:
text

then press Enter.

OR
- At the GRUB screen, press F6 (Kernel Options), select 'Default' and press Enter, type:
text

then Enter again.

Source RPM: (none) => mageia-gfxboot-theme

Ahmad Samir 2011-07-06 04:45:56 CEST

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 3 Mark Lo 2011-07-07 09:37:53 CEST
Great! Many thanks!

I can run install in text mode although I cannot avoid and still face the problem in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2034
Comment 4 Samuel Verschelde 2011-10-01 04:05:17 CEST
Assigning to maintainer now that our maintainers database has an entry for
this package. Please assign back to bugsquad@mageia.org in case of a mistake
from me.

CC: (none) => stormi
Assignee: bugsquad => balcaen.john

John Balcaen 2011-10-01 04:08:11 CEST

CC: (none) => balcaen.john
Assignee: balcaen.john => watersnowrock

Comment 5 AL13N 2011-10-01 09:54:41 CEST
*** Bug 645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => alien

Comment 6 AL13N 2011-10-02 11:37:19 CEST
just to mention the problem is still in mga1 final.
Comment 7 AL13N 2011-10-02 11:37:45 CEST
also pressing ESC goes into text boot loader and it work from there as well...
Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-08 19:03:45 CET
Did anybody check whether this bug is still valid for Mga2alpha?

@ Donald

Please set status to ASSIGNED if you think this bug was assigned correctly. If for work flow reasons you can't do that, then please put OK on the whiteboard instead.

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 9 Donald 2012-01-09 11:40:49 CET
I will take it for now, but as with the other more technical bugs for this package, anyone with more technical experience would by helpful.

Someone confirming it for now would be really useful.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-27 16:50:31 CET

Blocks: (none) => 4299

Comment 10 AL13N 2012-02-25 22:05:56 CET
Still valid for Mageia 2 Beta1

very easy to reproduce:

1. install using DVD
2. press F3 immediately and select 'Text', when you see the graphical menu from the media
3. you see a textbased first part, which is loading program (next stage)
4. you're back to graphical mode
Comment 11 AL13N 2012-02-25 22:11:46 CET
ok, it's worse now

1. install using DVD
2. press ESC
3. type in 'text' and hit the RETURN key
4. it loads the program
5. you immediately get an error:

/bin/unicode_start: /usr/bin/tty: not found

umounting partitions
you may safely reboot or halt your system

it's completely broken now

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Hardware: x86_64 => All
Version: 1 => Cauldron
Severity: normal => major

Comment 12 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-27 03:25:44 CET
Looks like we segfault in the Curses module.
I don't have alpha3 to test if it's due to the switch to using udev.
Comment 13 AL13N 2012-02-27 08:25:18 CET
i just tested with mageia 2 alpha3 DVD x86_64:

after loading, the screen refreshes and at the top i get:

exited abnormally :-( -- received signal 6


@tv: is this what you meant?
Comment 14 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-27 09:04:07 CET
That means it's not the udev switch that causes it but maybe the perl-5.12 to 5.14 migration.
Note that's a different issue than this BR. Please open another BR

CC: (none) => jquelin

Comment 15 Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-08 16:28:20 CET
Hello, this one seems fixed no ?
(since we have https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4724 for the installer part)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 16 AL13N 2012-03-08 20:33:44 CET
no, there's a workaround to get the text installer, but it's not fixed...

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-08 20:38:02 CET

CC: (none) => watersnowrock
Assignee: watersnowrock => bugsquad

Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-11 09:45:54 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => erwanaliasr1

Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-25 22:49:09 CEST

Summary: Can't select Text mode to install => Can't select option to install (key f2-6)

Comment 17 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-29 11:13:14 CEST
*** Bug 5668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => Sebastian.Blaziak

Comment 18 Guillaume Rousse 2012-05-02 21:48:13 CEST
Target set to mageia 3, as installer changes are needed.

CC: (none) => guillomovitch
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 3

Guillaume Rousse 2012-05-02 21:49:07 CEST

Blocks: 4299 => (none)

Comment 19 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-22 12:45:59 CEST
all options are here: http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/theme/mageia-gfxboot-theme/trunk/src/

So use F6, chose to default, then change the needed option

F3: text => text ; vga=785 => 640x480 ; vga=788 => 800x600 ; vga=791 =>1024x768
F4: automatic=method:other (only valid for drakx-installer)
F6: apm=off acpi=off mce=off barrier=off ide=nodma idewait=50 i8042.nomux psmouse.proto=bare irqpoll pci=nommconf => Safe Settings
acpi=off => No ACPI
nolapic => No Local APIC

(for the errata)
Comment 20 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:02:12 CEST
Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Manuel Hiebel 2012-06-12 21:17:51 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Guillaume Rousse 2012-06-12 21:19:35 CEST

CC: guillomovitch => (none)

Comment 21 AL13N 2013-05-05 15:49:23 CEST
confirmed on Mga3 RC Live CD (if the live cd actually has the text installer)

i pressed F3 in the grub menu and chose text then chose "install"
claire robinson 2013-05-05 20:42:44 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => 3RC

Comment 22 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 21:20:54 CEST
Is this bug still valid on Mageia 5 RC Live media?

CC: (none) => qa-bugs

Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 21:21:01 CEST

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 23 Mauricio Andrés Bustamante Viveros 2015-05-03 22:43:30 CEST
Using the MGA5 RC public

Test case1:

Boot the DVD
Press F3 to select text
Press enter twice.... go to graphical enviroment (bad)

Test case 2:
Boot from DVD (again)
Press the ESC key to get grub text mode
write text in that grub text mode
Get text classical installation

No problems.....

CC: (none) => neoser10

Comment 24 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 23:15:33 CEST
Thanks, closing them.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 25 Marja Van Waes 2015-05-04 12:54:39 CEST
@ Mauricio

I understand Test case 1 went wrong?

If so: maybe there is something in stage1.log ?

Do you happen to still have an install that was done graphically while you chose F3-text? 

In that case, you can find stage1.log in /root/drakx/stage1.log

If you do not have such an install, but Test case 1 does indeed go wrong:

Please reproduce it, and switch to tty2 with Ctrl+Alt+F2 as soon as you see the graphical screen to choose a Language.

Then insert a USB key, run "dmesg" to see whether it is sdb, sdc, or ...? 

Let's assume it is sdd, then do:

mkdir sdd1
mount /dev/sdd1 sdd1
cp -a tmp/stage1.log sdd1/


and attach stage1.log to this bug report
Comment 26 Marja Van Waes 2015-05-04 12:55:11 CEST
oh, and please reopen it, if test case 1 does indeed fail
Comment 27 Mauricio Andrés Bustamante Viveros 2015-05-04 18:38:41 CEST
Created attachment 6445 [details]
stage1.log from a failed text install when I select text from the graphical grub option F3

I see that does not pass the text kernel parameter
Mauricio Andrés Bustamante Viveros 2015-05-04 18:39:06 CEST

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED => (none)

Comment 28 Marja Van Waes 2015-05-05 22:50:31 CEST
valid 1st round pre-5final

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Summary: Can't select option to install (key f2-6) => Can't select option to install in Text mode with "F3" - "Text" in installer boot menu
Whiteboard: 3RC => 5RC

Comment 29 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2017-07-09 18:27:32 CEST
Text is no longer available when pressing F3, so this is no longer an issue.
Pressing ESC correctly displays a pure text installer. So closing as OLD.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED


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